From June 30th to July 21st, MEM undergraduate Karen Johnson will attend the IIWE 2006 Seminar “Women Engineers: Pushing for Sustainability.”

The 2006 seminar will emphasize topics relevant to the immediate and future experiences of the IIWE participants: being young engineering students who, once out on the global job market, will be exposed to a diversity of engineering practices and traditions.  The program will also include short lectures on the History Engineering Education, Past and Present Engineering Practices, International Standards, Ethics, Applying for a Job, Negotiating Salaries, etc.

The seminar will be enhanced with guest lectures on topics such as life long learning, panel discussions (work/life balance), personal presentations, industrial visits (IBM, Schlumberger, EADS) a Paris XI university visit, and a mini-seminar on intercultural communications. Discussions will center on women and leadership in a global workplace, as well as the challenges and rewards of being a woman in engineering.

For more information on the 2006 Seminar or on IIWE, please visit http://www.odu.edu/vhosts/eng/iiwe/index.htm